Introduction to Data Cleaning and Encoding

Hosted by the Data Management Program at the Shields Library.

Date & Time

Jan 31, 2018
from
01:00 PM to
03:00 PM

Location

Shields 360 (DSI classroom)

Description

Students will be introduced to OpenRefine, a tool for cleaning data. We will practice splitting cells containing multiple data points, bulk-editing of spelling mistakes in data entries and coding data entries. Materials will be provided on the day of the workshop.